confluent
pronunciation
How to pronounce confluent in British English:
UK ['kɒnflʊənt]
How to pronounce confluent in American English:
US ['kɒnflʊrnt]
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- Adjective:
- flowing together
Word Origin
- confluent (adj.)
- late 15c., from Middle French confluent or directly from Latin confluentem (nominative confluens), present participle of confluere "to flow together" (see confluence). The noun meaning "a stream which flows into another" is from 1850.
Example
- 1. The research of barotropic dynamic of monsoon confluent flow .
- 2. Barrier function of confluent cell layers .
- 3. These foramina are confluent with the orbital fissure in many sharks .
- 4. Styles 3 ; anthers reniform , with confluent locules .
- 5. This , in fact , represented two confluent basidiocarps .